Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon CloudSearch — Today Amazon Web Services is introducing Amazon CloudSearch, a new web service that brings the power of the Amazon.com's search technology to every developer. Amazon CloudSearch provides a fully-featured search engine that is easy to manage and scale.

First Intel Ivy Bridge launch expected on April 23 — The first wave of Ivy Bridge systems from PC vendors should include quad-core mobile laptops like the HP Envy 15. — (Credit: Hewlett-Packard) — The first of a series of Ivy Bridge chip announcements is expected on April 23, CNET has learned.

WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs — WordPress is no doubt a very popular web publishing platform for blogs and other types of websites. But just how popular is it? — We just completed a study and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world.

Patch Editor-in-Chief leaving AOL — Patch editor-in-chief Brian Farnham announced today he is leaving the network of hyper-local news and its parent-company AOL. The news was revealed in an all-company call and Farnham let it all hang out on the Patch Blog.

Deadline Looms For New Internet Domain System — If you want to own your own top-level domain you have about 24 hours to submit your application (along with the $180,000 fee) because once the April 12 deadline passes, that is it for the foreseeable future.

With CS6, Adobe tidies up Premiere Pro, speeds up After Effects — Premiere Pro CS6 strips away much of the widgetry that cluttered its predecessor's user interface. (Click to enlarge.) — (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) — Quick access to software features is nice, but there can be too much of a good thing.